SAMPLE ROOM: TRY BEFORE YOU BUY

Every woman’s dream is now a reality all because of Sample Room, which has been changing the landscape of the Philippines’ beauty sampling service since year 2012. Sample Room is here to help us find our perfect partner when it comes to skincare, cosmetics, and other beauty and wellness domains. With its huge online community of beauty experts, beauty junkies, and fellow consumers, Sample Room doesn’t only let us choose which free products to try but it also provides real and honest details about the product and customer review-more than enough information to help you make an informed decision before you buy.

Few weeks ago, Sample Room recently had their media launch which has held at Balai Indang, Cavite with the theme bohemian. The venue was quite far from us who lives in Metro Manila but Sample Room won’t allow us to be stressed going to Cavite because the team organized a shuttle bus from Makati going to the venue together with my fellow bloggers and beauty junkies. I must say that it was a worry-free trip and a day filled with fun and exciting activities. Artistic signages, dream catchers in pastel colors hanging around, flowers crowns to complete the bohemian look plus a pink suitcase that is filled with goodies just welcomed us at the event. I must say that Sample Room really had an amazing and creative team! They all wanted their blogger partners to have fun and they didn’t fail us on that part because every corner of the place was gorgeously set-up! Just judge the photos below and for sure you would really love the set-up also.

TRYVERTISING IS THE NEW SHOPPING

Don’t just get into shopping—go Tryvertising. Read real reviews by ladies who have tried a product and assess if it could be right for you before you make the purchase. Only Sample Room lets you “tryverse” easily, without regrets, and anchoring on the Zero Moment Of Truth, where every woman gets everything she needs to learn about a beauty product before making the purchase decision. The premise of Sample Room is simple: It allows you to acquire beauty and lifestyle products in deluxe-size samples, and sometimes in full-size for free with the goal of educating you about your choice products first before you decide to purchase in-store—saving you the hassle of and the time and money from getting huge beauty-ballistic-bottles that apparently don’t work for you. Sample Room is the Philippines’ first beauty and lifestyle sampling website, which now has over 45,000+ members, 390 featured products, and over 115 partner brands. As Sample Room is committed to helping you find your match when it comes to skincare, cosmetics, and other beauty and wellness domains, it takes product reviews seriously. Honest ratings and reviews from fellow beauty junkies, beauty experts, bloggers—all with varying skin types, ages, and concerns—who have tried the site’s featured products will surely help you navigate through the bewildering world of beauty samples and find what could work for your skin type and concerns.

Unlike many product sampling websites, however, where you pay monthly fees to avail of regular deliveries of random beauty items, Sample Room allows you to specifically choose what you want to try from its well-curated mix of beauty brands and products. All you have to pay for is a minimal amount for shipping & handling fee, and you’ll get the comfort of having your beauty loot delivered at your doorstep.

PLUS POINTS

It works by using earned points as its currency. As a new member, you instantly get 100 points upon registration, which allows you to get as much as 3 sample products in your shopping cart. Points required for acquiring items range from 15 points to 1,000 points, depending on the brand and the item itself. Bar soaps could be for 15 points, a sample size moisturizer could go for 50 points, a good-for-a-week sample of a luxury perfume requires 60 points, and a full-size tube of lipstick could be for 100 points, for instance. With many items requiring minimal points, your 100-startup credit goes quite a long way. You may re-earn the points you’ve spent by rating and reviewing the items you have availed. For instance, if you availed of pre-glued eyelashes for 70 points, rating it on the site instantly earns you 1 incentive point plus the 70 points rebate from your written review approved by the site’s admin. This way, you can keep on availing for new items throughout your membership. You can also earn 1 point for every registered referral to the site.

If you want to fast track your points acquisition, however, you may opt to become a VIP member and purchase 1,000 points for P649, which you may use to avail of more premium products for two months. The VIP membership also gives you exclusive invites to events, parties, and workshops, earlier notifications for new product uploads, as well as occasional bonus gifts from its brand partners. This VIP membership is renewable every two months.

DIGITAL AND ACTUAL

One of the best things about Sample Room is its real community with members interacting beyond the digital sphere. Apart from the online site, members get the chance to attend beauty events—from summer getaways and makeup sessions to spa parties, beauty blogger get-togethers, and other lifestyle activities and events that help in making every woman knowledgeable and empowered in every beauty aspect while adding to her arsenal of beauty brands.

Each year since their establishment, Sample Room hosts an annual get together with their loyal patrons as a way to giving back to the support they have received. This 2016, Sample Room has invited members of the media, partner bloggers, and VIP members to a day away from the hustle and bustle of the city, where they will be treated to a relaxing and fun getaway filled with fun activities, de-stressing, and of course, sampling of new and all time fave beauty products from a beauty addict’s favorite brands.

With Sample Room’s wonderful mix of luxury, niche, and drugstore brands, every woman will definitely find a favorite amongst its brands partners. In many cases, too, samples come in full-sizes such as lipsticks, BB creams, and mascaras, among other thrilling surprises.